gHacks technology news » screencast http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Another screencast service http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/28/another-screencast-service/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/28/another-screencast-service/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:48:00 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/28/another-screencast-service/ Martin has already showed you a few screencast services like Jing and Screencast-O-matic, but here’s another I found worth sharing, since it’s siper simple and easy to use.

Freescreencast.com allows you to quickly create and push button upload screencasts to the web. Once uploaded, you can either view it on site immediately, or you can embed the screencast in two modes onto your website or blog. I also love the fact that you can so easily export your screencast into an flv file for future use. This is great for me, since I’m thinking of doing some screencasts, but I don’t necessarily want to share this with everone.

Also, the application is very bare-bones, no bells and whistles, but for me, none needed. I don’t really need annotation, advanced editing and plugins for effects. If you simply want to ability to record and share, or save, without any hassle, Freescreencast.com and their software is for you.

screencast logoIf you need a tutorial on all this, take a look at the Starter Tutorial, but you can find more on the website. I found the tut to be a bit on the funny side, to me the persons accent is very irritating (sorry), and the recording quality could also be better. Note that the screencaster is using Vista, with all skinning taken off.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/28/another-screencast-service/feed/ 3 Create, Publish and Export Screencasts http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/30/create-publish-and-export-screencasts/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/30/create-publish-and-export-screencasts/#comments Wed, 30 May 2007 11:48:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/30/create-publish-and-export-screencasts/ Screencasts are an efficient way of showing someone else how you are performing tasks in your operating system. They are mainly used for educational purposes such as recording step by step instructions on how to use a certain program by capturing a certain region of your screen and commenting the actions using a microphone.

The service Screencast-O-Matic offers a free and reliable way of creating screencasts using just your browser and Java. It is not necessary to register an account to create a screencast. This is only necessary if you want to publish the screencast later on the website of the developer.

It is furthermore possible to export the screencast into Apple Quicktime format without registration as well. You probably would like to know more about the process of screencasting itself.

Just click on the Create button on the Screencast-O-Matic and select a resolution for the screencast. You currently can choose between 640×480, 800×600 and 1024×768 plus the option to screencast full size if you have a maximum resolution of 1024×768.

You may then choose a way of recording the audio or select to not use audio recording. Last but not least you may select to use a red square that displays mouse movement in the screencast because the mouse pointer itself is not shown.

Only the frame of the window that you have selected is shown unless you select to screencast in full size. The frame can be moved around and all applications, not only the contents of your browser, can be moved into and shown during the screencast.

The screencast can be started and stopped at anytime but the maximum recording time is 15 minutes at this time. After finishing the screencast you get the option to export the screencast to .mov or upload it as a public or private screencast to the Screencast-O-Matic website which requires a registration.

I recorded a 15 minute screencast and exported it. The file that was created was 120 Megabytes in size and it took only a few minutes to create.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/30/create-publish-and-export-screencasts/feed/ 1 Camstudio http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/24/camstudio/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/24/camstudio/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:06:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/24/camstudio/ CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using it’s built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). It´s a great way to create demonstrations for instance or record video tutorials. Besides that you could also record gameplay footage to show your gaming skills or create movies using the recorded footage.

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